Cygwin-Xfree86 and XP and Solaris 8

2002-11-04 Thread Schiretz, Helmut F
Hi, I have successfully installed and used Cygwin-Xfree86 (1.3.13 I believe - which I got from nas.nasa.gov) on a Windows 2000 machine and I am able to remotely connect to a Solaris 2.6 machine, but not to a Solaris 8 machine (it freezes whilst trying to connect). I have successfully installed

Re: Cygwin-Xfree86 and XP and Solaris 8

2002-11-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Helmut, I think you need to point your ``font path'' at the font server running on the Solaris 8 machine. You can do this with the XWin.exe command-line parameter ``-fp''. There are examples on the web, and there is an example in the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cyg